This fast-paced legal history recounts the undercover FBI investigation of a multinational corporation and the unusual relationship between the federal agents and their zealous informant--a senior executive hiding misdeeds of his own. This story of price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland Company, a major supplier of popular food additives, ...
The fall, in 2001, of the much-touted corporate giant the Enron Corporation made headlines as billions of dollars virtually disappeared and reports of corporate malfeasance surfaced. Investors--including pension plans, Enron employees, and ordinary Americans--were left stunned, angry, and broke. A concerned public asked how it happened, and wanted ...
Using hundreds of exclusive sources and thousands of internal, confidential records, this book reveals the shocking true story behind the wrongdoing, the cover-up, and the investigations of the real-life thriller that shook the nation and the world--the massive securities fraud perpetrated by Prudential Bach in the 1980s. Photo insert.
This is a story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lost enormous sums, some their life's savings. Names like Onassis and Bush are numbered among the victims. The author, whose stories resulted in new criminal investigations, has an insider's view of the corruption at ...
This fast-paced legal history recounts the undercover FBI investigation of a multinational corporation and the unusual relationship between the federal agents and their zealous informant--a senior executive hiding misdeeds of his own. This story of price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland Company, a major supplier of popular food additives, ...
Valuable secrets every investor should know to protect his or her assets. The public has been bombarded with the many benefits of investing, yet only a fraction of investors understand how brokerage firms bend and even break the rules. Even fewer realize they have been defrauded and take action. Tracy Pride Stoneman, an abritration lawyer, and ...
This fast-paced legal history recounts the undercover FBI investigation of a multinational corporation and the unusual relationship between the federal agents and their zealous informant--a senior executive hiding misdeeds of his own. This story of price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland Company, a major supplier of popular food additives, ...
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
